Education or Inflation? The Micro and Macroeconomics of the Brazilian Income Distribution During 1981-1995

Francisco Ferreira and Julie Litchfield

Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, 2001, vol. 38, issue 114, 209-238

Abstract: This paper investigates the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s, as well as the declines in the first half of the 1990s. It also documents the more cyclical trends in poverty during the same period. Using static decompositions of i

Keywords: Brazil; income distribution; inequality; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D3 I3 N3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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